Yet it is all still there, beneath the surface, supporting every brushstroke or piece of our life ....
The book pages disappeared...
©Laurie Pace Graphics One Design 2026
Haunted Mesa
Oil on Canvas SOLD by Laurie Pace
One thing struck me that I don't think I have put into words before.
Book pages disappear.
The viewer cannot read them anymore.
But they still determine everything that comes afterward.
Isn't that exactly how our lives work?
The books we've read.
The people we've loved.
The grief we've carried.
The faith we've learned.
The roads we've traveled.
Much of it can no longer be seen.
Yet it is all still there, beneath the surface, supporting every brushstroke or piece of our life that follows.
That realization makes this painting above feel even richer to me than it did before. It isn't just about a haunted mesa.
It's about the hidden foundations we all carry—and how they quietly shape the beauty that eventually appears.
The Haunted Mesa by Laurie Pace (Elle Pace), an original mixed media oil painting featuring five blue buffalo emerging from a glowing yellow mesa. The painting was created over collage pages from Louis L'Amour's novel The Haunted Mesa*, blending literature, memory, and expressive palette knife painting.*
Studio Notes is a continuing series within Threads of Grace, where I share not only finished paintings but the discoveries, questions, and unexpected paths that lead to them.
Laurie is an international artist, her paintings are collected in Australia, New Zealand, Singapore, Hong Kong, Germany, DuBai, Portugal, Italy, France, Germany, the UK, Ireland, Sweden, Norway, Poland, Canada, Brazil, Mexico, St Thomas, Romania, Greece, Croatia, and Ecuador.
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